Mistakes: How They Have Happened and How Some Might Be Avoided

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Nick Gardner, Mar 30, 2007 - Business & Economics - 330 pages
A multidisciplinary examination of avoidable mistakes and their causes, drawing upon contributions from media analysis, political theory, forecasting technology and neuropsychology

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Mistakes
4
Media misinformation
Politics 61
Forecasts 117
Misinterpretation 143
Decision making 173
Some instructive mistakes 205
Avoidance 245
Solutions to the inference
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About the author (2007)

After a brief career as a flight test observer, Nick Gardner worked as a professional engineer in two industrial companies and in the British Government's Concorde project office. He then worked as an economist in three government departments and served as economic adviser to four British Cabinet Ministers. He is now a writer.

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